Procurement Practice Associate Manager

Skill required: Sourcing - Sourcing and Procurement Strategy
Designation: Procurement Practice Associate Manager
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:10 to 14 years
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What would you do? Cross Category-Triage Accenture seeks a ‘Triage Coordinator’ to collaborate with internal and external clients to support inflow management and risk review. You will help prioritize and route incoming procurement volume, determine criticality, and identify associated risks in line with the defined policies. You will collaborate across departments, teams, and specialties to ensure the procurement requests are effectively handled. Talent Segment: Advisory You will be working as a part of Procurement management team which uses a systematic approach for buying all the goods and services needed for a company to stay sustainable. They are involved in the identification of need, finding and qualifying the suppliers, requesting proposals, negotiating with suppliers, contracting, delivery and analyzing results. Develop strategies to transform the S&P function that lead to the implementation of differentiated and competitive S&P capabilities, processes, technologies and organizations.
What are we looking for? Complexity The degree of difficulty of an assignment or the level of problem-solving assessment and resolution required, as indicated by the degree of problem-solving, strategic vs. routine focus, and stakeholder interactions (e.g., Executives, Supervisor, etc.) Requires identifying and assessing complex problems for area of responsibility. Creates solutions in situations in which analysis requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors Requires adherence to the strategic direction set by senior management Interaction with senior management at a client and/or within Accenture involving matters that may require acceptance of an alternate approach. Authority Power to influence or complete assignments independently and ability to make decisions, as indicated by latitude to devise work products or plans, reliance on instruction, and decision-making ability Some latitude in decision-making. Acts independently to determine methods and procedures for new assignments Impact or Decision Impact Risk or consequences in the event of failure, as indicated by a range of expected impact, such as within a team or across a team or area of responsibility and level of risk Decisionshaveasignificantday-to-dayimpact on areas of responsibili Scope Degree of accountability for assigned tasks, our clients and/or the organization, as indicated by size of work effort and scale of entity and/or program Manages small to medium-sized teams and/or work efforts at a client or within Accenture Procurement Specific Skill Should have experience in the source-to-contract process with the foundational knowledge of: Various sourcing project types (RFI, RFP, RFQ, Auction, Spot Buy, Incumbent Negotiation, Renewals, Term-Extensions, etc.), Procurement categories (directs, indirect, and sub-categories), Contract types (MSA, SOW, SSA, Standalone Agreement, Short-Form Agreement, Purchase Order, etc.), Global and regional regulations Required Graduation or post-graduation, CPSM / CPM (desired) 6+ years of Sourcing and contracting experience, preferably spread across categories and regions Skill Name Expected proficiency level Critical thinking P4 - Expert Contracting process P4 - Expert Sourcing process P4 - Expert Communication (Written and verbal) P4 - Expert Soft Skills P4 - Expert Client relationship management P4 - Expert
Roles and Responsibilities: Your role includes some or all the following key responsibilities. You should review these in conjunction with career-level guidelines to clearly understand your role s expectations. Triage Management Be the first point of contact for external and internal stakeholders for incoming procurement volume Collect details relevant to the requested procurement project to assess against guidelines or policies Determine criticality and risk to business, prioritize, and route inbound procurement requests to appropriate teams/project managers Assess capacity/bandwidth of resources/deployed teams to provide transparent do-ability to stakeholders and effectively assign incoming projects Analyze project requests (as received in the inflow) for correct categorization, type, procurement vertical, region, etc. Determine project complexity through the judgement of the project from minimal details provided by the stakeholder Act as a defense for the project manager/ ground teams to push back on un-realistic project requests Manage pipeline of projects to ensure no stockpile of volume with teams/project managers Timely assess and update (as desired) the management protocol that structures the incoming workflow by priority so that the most critical work is attended to first Identify and eliminate some of the time-consuming steps seen in best practices or processes Define triage rules (to appropriately route procurement requests automatically) and manage modifications Own and manage the project inflow system/application for updates, modifications Interact with key customer and internal stakeholders and work closely with them to identify areas of improvement Offer creative solutions to support the overall sourcing program and achieve the desired results To ensure timely project deliverables with the defined quality standards and service levels Will be responsible for designing daily, weekly, and monthly reports associated with the triage process Responsible for monitoring & presenting the deliverables to Client/Internal global team members